I think we all know that the one person Barry loves more than anyone else is, of course, himself. And therefore he is not the least bit shy about seeking out opportunities that allow him to talk about himself and great he is. His proclivity for talking about himself has become nearly legendary. And we were once again treated to yet another occasion where, not counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, Barry used the first person singular--including the pronouns "I" and "me" and the adjective "my"--199 times. This occurred during another one of his campaign style speeches that he delivered on Thursday during which he vowed, once again, to use unilateral executive action to achieve his policy goals that Congress would not enact through the normal, constitutional legislative process.
So it was then that during his recent trip to Texas, one where he refused to go to the border so that he could get an up close and very personal view of his handy work, that Barry said in a speech given in Austin, at least according to the official transcript and video posted on the White House website, "It is lonely, me just doing stuff." Barry then went on to tell those assembled, "I’m just telling the truth now." And then he added, "I don't have to run for office again, so I can just let her rip. And I want to assure you, I’m really not that partisan of a guy." Not a partisan guy? Oh, really. And in what I guess was his own little way of proving just that, he went on to say that Abraham Lincoln was his favorite president, and then gave a list of what he called "great Republican presidents" which even, oddly enough, included Richard Nixon.
Barry said, "My favorite president is the first Republican president, a guy named Abraham Lincoln." And then he went on to say, "You look at our history, and we had great Republican presidents who--like Teddy Roosevelt started the National Park System, and Dwight Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System, and Richard Nixon started the EPA." The White House presented Barry’s speech, which Barry delivered at Austin’s Paramount Theatre, as "Remarks by the President on the Economy." The remarks, the White House reports, ran 40 minutes, and the full transcript (including annotations for "laughter" and "applause") is more than 5,500 words. How is it that somebody, anybody, is able to sit through 40 minutes of drivel listening to this creep talk about little more than himself? I mean, really, 5,500 words?
By contrast, one of Barry’s supposed heroes, President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettyburg Address was only 272 words--and did not include any form of the first person singular. And it was a speech of substance not merely a vehicle by which Lincoln might have been tempted to use, as Barry usually always does, to tell those listening about how great he is. In Barry’s speech, he used a first person singular, on average, every 12 seconds. At that rate, had Barry spoken for just 15 more minutes, he would have used the first person singular more than 272 times in one speech, exceeding all the words in the Gettysburg Address. In one 68-word passage, in which he vowed to act unilaterally if Congress did not enact legislation he liked, Barry used the first person singular five times more than Lincoln used it in his 272 words at Gettysburg.
Barry said, "I can't stand by with partisan gridlock that's the result of cynical political games that threaten the hard work of millions of Americans." And he went on to declare, "I’m not just going to stand by and say, okay, that's--I guess that's the way it is. Whenever and wherever I have the power, the legal authority to help families like yours, even if Congress is not doing anything, I will take that opportunity." I found it rather interesting that Barry would even bring up Nixon. Because it’s in at least one respect that Nixon is the one guy of whom it can be said that Barry most closely resembles. But Nixon, I think it fair to say, was, on his worst day, much more of a statesman that Barry could ever hope to be on his best day. And I also think that Nixon loved this country, whereas Barry most definitely does not. Barry seeks ways to destroy it.
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